Heh, 'garbage language' or 'garbage-collected language'? Until Go I considered the two to be the same :)

But yeah... the tooling is a strong point IMO.

(Package management went downhill once the whole GOPROXY thing was introduced. When 'go get' was the simplest way to fetch packages, things were great IMHO ... but I'm not doing big enterprise-y stuff so maybe my view is too narrow as to the issues of 'vendoring', version management etc.)